Hi All,
I'm wondering if there are some good text tools in Inkscape or maybe the new .48 version. It seems very difficult to do things such as expanding text where for example the first letter of a word or sentence is say 10 points high and the last letter is 70 points high.
Is this easily done? Inkscape seems awesome except for the text tools but maybe I'm missing something.
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and distort it accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.
Thank You George
On 10-05-28 02:00 PM, George Farris wrote:
Hi All,
I'm wondering if there are some good text tools in Inkscape or maybe the new .48 version. It seems very difficult to do things such as expanding text where for example the first letter of a word or sentence is say 10 points high and the last letter is 70 points high.
Is this easily done? Inkscape seems awesome except for the text tools but maybe I'm missing something.
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and distort it accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.
Thank You George
I believe that `Extensions -> Modify Path -> Perspective` is the tool you want.
Crazy question: I've hit a bug in svgweb where it can't handle path nodes having coordinates in exponential notation (2e-5) but fixed point works (.0002).
Is there anyway to tell inkscape to not used exponential notation?
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:37 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote:
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and distort it accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
That was the old behaviour. You can get the same result by doing an ungroup (ctrl u) then a combine (ctrl k).
I still seem to get many nodes per letter instead of treating the line of text as a single object. Is this part of .47 or do I need .48?
Thanks
Jon Bertrand wrote:
Crazy question: I've hit a bug in svgweb where it can't handle path nodes having coordinates in exponential notation (2e-5) but fixed point works (.0002).
Is there anyway to tell inkscape to not used exponential notation?
Not as far as I'm aware. Is it feasible to fix svgweb instead? (As the exponential notation is valid SVG.) If not I guess you (or someone else) could hack svg/path-string.cpp to not use the exponential notation in path data (if that's the only area where it gives problems).
-----Original Message----- From: George Farris [mailto:farrisg@...289...] Sent: 28 May 2010 22:38 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Expanding text
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:37 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote:
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and
distort it
accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
That was the old behaviour. You can get the same result by doing an ungroup (ctrl u) then a combine (ctrl k).
I still seem to get many nodes per letter instead of treating the line of text as a single object. Is this part of .47 or do I need .48?
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path' LPE. Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to shape the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Ciao, Johan
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 22:16 +0200, J.B.C.Engelen@...2072... wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: George Farris [mailto:farrisg@...289...] Sent: 28 May 2010 22:38 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Expanding text
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:37 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote:
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and
distort it
accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
That was the old behaviour. You can get the same result by doing an ungroup (ctrl u) then a combine (ctrl k).
I still seem to get many nodes per letter instead of treating the line of text as a single object. Is this part of .47 or do I need .48?
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path' LPE. Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to shape the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Sorry I just see some regular text and a slanted line and I really don't understand what you said above. What is an LPE?
I think I need a more in depth explanation sorry. Don't know Inkscape that well.
-----Original Message----- From: George Farris [mailto:farrisg@...289...] Sent: 31 May 2010 19:58 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Expanding text
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 22:16 +0200, J.B.C.Engelen@...2072... wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: George Farris [mailto:farrisg@...289...] Sent: 28 May 2010 22:38 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Expanding text
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:37 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote:
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and
distort it
accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
That was the old behaviour. You can get the same result by
doing
an
ungroup (ctrl u) then a combine (ctrl k).
I still seem to get many nodes per letter instead of treating the
line
of text as a single object. Is this part of .47 or do I need .48?
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path'
LPE.
Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to
shape
the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Sorry I just see some regular text and a slanted line and I really don't understand what you said above. What is an LPE?
Are you sure you have 0.47? For me it loads fine, and shows the regular text and the same text but then small on one side and big on the other.
I think I need a more in depth explanation sorry. Don't know Inkscape that well.
Have a look here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects.html
Ciao, Johan
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:05 +0200, J.B.C.Engelen@...2072... wrote:
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path'
LPE.
Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to
shape
the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Sorry I just see some regular text and a slanted line and I really don't understand what you said above. What is an LPE?
Are you sure you have 0.47? For me it loads fine, and shows the regular text and the same text but then small on one side and big on the other.
I think I need a more in depth explanation sorry. Don't know Inkscape that well.
Have a look here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects.html
Yes actually it does work I guess I didn't wait long enough.
I'll see if I can figure it out.
Thanks
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:36 -0700, George Farris wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:05 +0200, J.B.C.Engelen@...2072... wrote:
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path'
LPE.
Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to
shape
the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Sorry I just see some regular text and a slanted line and I really don't understand what you said above. What is an LPE?
Are you sure you have 0.47? For me it loads fine, and shows the regular text and the same text but then small on one side and big on the other.
I think I need a more in depth explanation sorry. Don't know Inkscape that well.
Have a look here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects.html
Yes actually it does work I guess I didn't wait long enough.
I'll see if I can figure it out.
Okay I got it to work, very awkward for dealing with text to say the least. I think what one would ideally like is for the line of text to be turned into a rectangle with for nodes and then one could add nodes to it for shaped text. Much more intuitive. Maybe that will come in .48. Forget the LPE altogether for text.
Cheers and thanks for the help.
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